Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2015
Assessment of Biomass Burning and Mineral Dust Impacts on Air Quality and Regional Climate, Xinyi Dong
The Development and Validation of the Self-Efficacy in Statistical Practices Scale, Niranji Anuradha Pathirage Dopa Pathirage
Characterization of Optimal Cyber Attacks on Control Systems, Anis Drira
Investigating Cranial Variation in Japanese Populations Using Geometric Morphometrics, Beatrix Dudzik
Illusions of Safety: Poems, Stephanie Elaine Dugger
The Effect of Composition and Architecture on Polymer Behavior in Homopolymer Blends and Inter-filament Bonding in 3D Printed Models, Edward Roy Duranty
Bulk Heterojunctions in Photovoltaic Devices, Ondrej Edward Dyck
ION TRANSPORT IN POLYMER ELECTROLYTES, Fei Fan
An Examination of High-Achieving College Students: Career Indecision and Career Thoughts, Justina Anne Farley
Analysis of Productivity Indicators: Perceptions of Administrators and Faculty Serving at Religiously Affiliated Private Colleges and Universities, Mark Jeremy Farley
The Perpetration of Adulthood Animal Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence in Men and Women Arrested for Domestic Violence, Jeniimarie Febres
Rogue and Deviants: A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Opportunism in Strategic Alliance Relationships, Anton Pavol Fenik
A Model for the Rapid Distribution of Critical Medical Countermeasures to Large U.S. Populations During a Public Health Emergency via the SNS-RSS-POD System, Roger Ivan Fiske
DAQ Software Contributions, Absolute Scale Energy Calibration and Background Evaluation for the NOvA Experiment at Fermilab, Eric Flumerfelt
The State of Inclusive Practices for English Learners in Georgia’s Elementary Schools: A Mixed Methods Study of the ESOL Push-in Model, Eileen Pabilona Galang
The Design of Novel DCB-3503 Analogues: Ligand-Based and Structure-Based Approaches, Yundi Gan
Public Service Motivation: A Cross-National Examination of East Asian Countries, Jin Gao
An Exploration of the Relationships among Faculty Verbal Messages, College Student Identities, and Student Outcomes, Michelle Epstein Garland
Assessment of Reactivity Equivalence for Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuels in Light Water Reactors, Nathan Michael George
TARGETING EARLY EVENTS IN HERPETIC STROMAL KERATITIS, Fernanda Giménez
Neuron Clustering for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Supervised and Reinforcement Learning, Benjamin Frederick Goodrich
All-Acrylic Multigraft Copolymers: Synthesis and Structure-Property Relationship for Producing Next Generation Thermoplastic Elastomers, Andrew Brown Goodwin
The Roles of Facilitators in Implementation and Effectiveness of In-School Suspension (ISS): A Qualitative Study, Gia Renee Gray
Evaluation, Construction, and Verification of a Subchannel Steady State Heat Transfer Code for Plate-Fueled Reactors, Cory Landon Griffard
Epidemiology of select species of filarial nematodes in free-ranging moose (Alces alces) of North America, Caroline Mae Grunenwald
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Irradiation Damage in Multicomponent Alloys, Wei Guo
Two Essays on the Effects of External Pressure on Executive Compensation: Evidenced Through Political Sensitivity and Pay for Performance Disclosure, Brandy Elaine Hadley
Examination of Banded Iron Formation Through Petrographic, Geochemical and Iron Isotope Analyses, Melissa Margaret Hage
A site-specific and dynamic modeling system for zoning and optimizing variable rate irrigation in cotton, Amir Haghverdi
On The Spin Evolution Of Isolated Pulsars, Oliver Quinn Hamil
Self-Learning License Plate Matching Algorithm: Some Enhancements and Its Role in Travel Time Ground Truth Measurements, Stephanie Raven Ann Hargrove
Nucleosynthesis in Self-Consistent Core-Collapse Supernova Models using Multidimensional Chimera Simulations, James Austin Harris
Methodology For Generating Simplified Cross Section Data Sets For Neutron Transport Calculations, Thomas Jay Harrison
An Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Manhood in the Potomac River Valley of Virginia, 1645-1730, Danny Brad Hatch
Social Systems and Psychic Confluence: Flash Mobs, Communications, and Agency, Nicholas John Hauman
Consolidation in U.S. Higher Education: A Case Study of a Regional Institution, Douglas V. Hawks
Group Brainstorming in Organizations: Implementing the Functional Theory of Group Decision-Making as a Means for Increasing Performance, Kyle B. Heuett
The Matter of Jerusalem: The Holy Land in Angevin Court Culture and Identity, c. 1154-1216, Katherine Lee Hodges-Kluck
Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine Blade Using the Harmonic Balance Method, Jason Charles Howison
Engineering the “Pluripotency” of Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glasses as Biomedical Materials, Lu Huang
Age Estimation with Decision Trees: Testing the Relevance of 94 Aging Indicators on the William M. Bass Donated Collection, Kevin Benjamin Dominic Hufnagl
Designing Novel 1,2,3- and 1,2,4-Triazoles for Coordination Complexes and Frameworks, Brianna Celiese Hughes
Studies of Metalloporphyrins and Tantalum Amide Imide Compounds, Seth Carlton Hunter
Exploring Novel Environmental Link to Obesity: Role of Parabens in Adipogenesis in vitro and in vivo, Pan Hu
Incentive based Residential Demand Aggregation, Qinran Hu
Why Do U.S. Consumers Purchase Ethnically Disparate Products?, Jong Han Hyun
Polymer Additives Effects on Structure and Dynamics, Adam Eugene Imel
Influence of Aminocyclopyrachlor plus Metsulfuron on Seedhead Development and Forage Quality in Tall Fescue, Trevor Davis Israel
Characterization of the role of alpha-arylphorin in the Heliothis virescens midgut response to Cry1Ac toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis, Jerreme Jamael Jackson
Quantification of Fast-Neutron Sources with Coded Aperture Imaging, Timothy Donald Jackson
A Low-Power BFSK/OOK Transmitter for Wireless Sensors, Mohammed Shahriar Jahan
Improving Mechanical Properties of Bulk Metallic Glasses by Approaches of In-situ Composites and Thin Films, Haoling Jia
Algorithm-Based Fault Tolerance for Two-Sided Dense Matrix Factorizations, Yulu Jia
Electronic Energy Loss of Heavy Ions and Its Effects in Ceramics, Ke Jin
Elucidation of Conformational Switching Mechanisms of Sensing Proteins by Molecular Dynamics Perturbation Studies, Quentin Ramon Johnson
A Discourse Analysis of Beginning English Teachers' Identity Development, Joshua Peter Johnston
Blueberry polyphenols as natural antimicrobial agents against foodborne viruses: Towards understanding their mechanism and applications in food systems, Snehal Shrikant Joshi
Exploring Structure-Dynamics-Function Relationship in Proteins, Protein: Ligand and Protein: Protein Systems through Computational Methods, Karan Pal Kapoor
Population Dynamics and Ecophysiology of Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) in the High Elevation Forests in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Steven Douglas Kaylor
Financial Deregulation, Income Inequality, and Partisan Politics from the Great War to the Great Recession, Eric Reed Keller
Developing a Written Language Inventory for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: A Systemic Functional Grammar Approach, Jennifer Renée Kilpatrick
Monte Carlo Methods in Finance, Je Guk Kim
The fabrication of micro- and nano- scale deterministic and stochastic pillar arrays for planar separations, Teresa Byers Kirchner
Experiences of Newly Licensed Registered Nurses Who Stay in Their First Jobs, Lisa D. Kirkland
Wide Band Embedded Slot Antennas for Biomedical, Harsh Environment, and Rescue Applications, Yun Seo Koo
EFFECTIVENESS OF PROLOQUO2GOTM IN ENHANCING COMMUNICATION IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM DURING ABA THERAPY, Taylor Eastin Krcek
CONSTRUCTING VICTIMHOOD: OPPOSITION TO LEGISLATION PROTECTING LGBT STUDENTS AGAINST BULLYING, Kiam Loong Daniel Lai
The Count of Saint-Gilles and the Saints of the Apocalypse: Occitanian Piety and Culture in the Time of the First Crusade, Thomas Whitney Lecaque
Environmental Gentrification and Development in a Rural Appalachian Community: Blending Critical Theory and Ethnography, Rhiannon A. Leebrick
QUANTITATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS PIPELINE FOR LABEL-FREE METAPROTEOMICS DATA AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Lang Ho Lee
Computational Framework for Small Animal SPECT Imaging: Simulation and Reconstruction, Sang Hyeb Lee
Wide-Area Synchrophasor Measurement Applications and Power System Dynamic Modeling, Yin Lei
Fluorochlorozirconate Glass Ceramics for Photovoltaic and Computed Radiography Applications, Russell Lee Leonard
The Congruence-Based Zero-Divisor Graph, Elizabeth Fowler Lewis
ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT ARCHITECTURES WITH DYNAMICALLY DEFINED PRECISION, Getao Liang
Crystal Growth and Physical Property Characterization of Complex Perovskite Oxides, Ling Li
Compressed Sensing in Resource-Constrained Environments: From Sensing Mechanism Design to Recovery Algorithms, Shuangjiang Li
Driving Volatility in Instantaneous Driving Behaviors: Studies Using Large-Scale Trajectory Data, Jun Liu
A Magnetic Actuated Fully Insertable Robotic Camera System for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, Xiaolong Liu
Using GPU to Accelerate Linear Computations in Power System Applications, Xue Li
Timing and Extent of the Little Ice Age Glacial Advances in the Eastern Tian Shan, China, Yanan Li
Southern Gothic Fiction and New Naturalism: Toward a Reading of New Naturalism, Jeremy Kevin Locke
The factors that influenced the decision to enter into a $1 billion fundraising campaign by two public higher education institutions, William Rhodes Logan
Joint optimization of allocation and release policy decisions for surgical block time under uncertainty, Mina Loghavi
Calmodulin-like protein 38: a component of ribonucleoprotein particles during hypoxic stress responses in Arabidopsis, Ansul Lokdarshi
Women At War: A Qualitative Study Of U.S. Female Military Personnel, Their Journeys Home, Multiple Deployments, And The Effect Of War, Autumn Nicole Lowry
Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognostics of Lithium-ion Battery based on Least Squares Support Vector Machine and Memory Particle Filter Framework, Mohammed Ali Lskaafi
Insights into planetesimal evolution: Petrological investigations of regolithic howardites and carbonaceous chondrite impact melts, Nicole Gabriel Lunning
Physiological characterization of Prochlorococcus under abiotic stressors temperature and hydrogen peroxide, Lanying Ma
Dynamic Simulation and Neuromuscular Control of Movement: Applications for Predictive Simulations of Balance Recovery, Misagh Mansouri Boroujeni
Principal Mental Models and Perceptions of Distributed Leadership, Leigh Ann Marlar
Computational Analysis of Neutron Scattering Data, Benjamin Walter Martin
CHARACTERIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AMYLOID-REACTIVE PEPTIDES AS TRACERS FOR QUANTITATIVE MOLECULAR IMAGING, Emily Brooke Martin
Economic Wealth and Social Welfare: A Longitudinal Analysis of Transnational Well-Being, Kelly Brooke Martin
Solar Modulation of the Cosmic Ray Intensity and the Measurement of the Cerenkov Reemission in NOvA’s Liquid Scintillator, Philip James Mason